Torpedo Away!

I would be interested in participating in this campaign. If approved, I will be building one of these. Probably the “Marder”.

Would a manned torpedo be allowed? Since it isn’t a vehicle carrying a torpedo I thought I would ask.

Thank you,

Randy :slightly_smiling_face:

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Sounds like a plan for first catch of 2026 … Now I need to find some fish, so the subject is yet TBD …:smiley:

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Groan! You must be a dad too.

O.K., so that will be a Douglas TBD Devastator then… What scale are you thinking?
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Cheers,

M

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Ok was looking at either a MTB or early TBD that’s Torpedo Boat Destroyer not the aircraft but then a rattle of the old grey matter reminded me of the IJN Torpedo cruiser Kitakami - 5 sets of 4 torpedo tubes on each side for a broadside of 20 torpedoes!


A search on Scalemates brings up this

Now to find one.

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Aoshima did Kitakami in 1:700 too, and that and the SkyWave were boxed as her sister “Oi”.

Cheers,

M

Thanks Tom, also found Fujimi did a fairly (last 10 years) recent new tooling but that is of her/him in 1945 fit with all but two sets of tubes removed, 100 x 25mm AA guns added and Kaiten carried. Although the Kaiten were human torpedos so I suppose that option still counts?

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Sounds interesting, so I’m interested…

Well, TB…H I still haven’t decided yet, especially that I don’t have anything on my shelves that could fit into category… except FW190 TB version and Japanese cruisers :sweat_smile:

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